What you are doing is keying up the repeater again before it has a chance to transmit the tone. Don't do that, it's poor operating procedure. Keep it up enough and the repeater owner/trustee may invite you to stop using his repeater.

73,

Lon - W3LKNaugatuck, Connecticut

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Do you know the batteries are in good shape? Do you hearthe squelch tail after you finish talking on a long transmission?

It sounds to me as though the radio output dies after a few seconds and drops out of the repeater, which thensends the usual courtesy tone. But you don't hear it because you are still talking with the button pushed.

Have someone listen to you on the repeater and reportback whether your signal dropped out before you finishedyour transmission or not. If you don't hear the squelchtail after a long transmission, that is a clue thatyou didn't hold the repeater the whole time.

So if you make a very short transmission the receiver comes back on immediatly and you hear the beep and the squelch tail. If you make a longer transmission then the receiver delays comming back on and you miss the beep and squelch tail? I assume it comes back on shortly after that or you would not hear the response from the station you are in QSO with.

Just guessing, but it could be a heat problem. A longer transmission heats up the radio which kills something in the receiver. When you release the PTT then the receiver is dead for a few seconds until it cools? Do you notice any temperature change when you are holding the radio?

That radio has a lot of different squelch features. You might want to start by turning off all of the CTSS/DCS/EPCS stuff (except for transmit CTSS if your repeater requires it). Not sure why any of them would make a difference with transmit time but I'd turn them all off anyway to ensure that you have a basic setup to start with.

You probably have either a slow ctcss decoder in the portable or...one repeater has a courtesy tone with minimal delay, since you can hear it with your decode off.

Depending on the repeater controller being used, the courtesy tone may be able to be programmed with a slightly longer delay. It's quite possible the system operator may have an audio delay in the repeated audio to prevent squelch crash from non-commercial ht's, further delaying the courtesy tone.

Agree with KO1D. I am not certain if the 3R has the WIRES ability, but most new Yaesu radios do. It will generate a tone a split second after the PTT is pressed, then will pass the voice through. IF the WIRES is turned on, the first part of voice transmission will be covered by the tone beep. As was just mentioned, make sure that the WIRES is not enabled. Would suggest testing this on simplex and not a repeater. I am amazed how many newbee's and amateurs with a new Yaesu get caught by this feature.

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